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Common weeds

Identify common weeds

Knowing about a weed’s habit, biology, persistence & spread will help you to keep on top of it. Here is detailed information on more than 100 individual weeds, from dandelion to creeping buttercup, bindweed and ground elder.

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    Wild-oat

    Wild-oat is an introduced annual grass weed of arable, waste and rough ground.

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    Wall Barley

    Wall barley is an annual grass common in central, southern and eastern England, and scattered elsewhere. It is found on waste and rough ground and barish patches in rough grassland.

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    Soft brome

    Soft brome is a tufted annual, sometimes biennial grass native in waste places, meadows and on dunes.

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    Black-grass

    Black-grass is a native annual grass weed that occurs throughout the UK but is found mainly in the cereal growing areas of southern and eastern England.

  1. Barren brome weed
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    Barren brome

    Barren brome is a winter, rarely summer, annual grass, native in rough and waste ground, in hedgerows and by roadsides. It is a weed of arable land and gardens.

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    Yorkshire fog

    Yorkshire fog is a tufted, perennial grass, native on rough grassland, lawns, arable land, waste ground and in open woods. It is generally distributed in the UK and often abundant.

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    Rough meadow-grass

    Rough meadow-grass occurs as both an annual and perennial grass with procumbent tillers some of which become leafy stolons.

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    Perennial rye-grass

    Perennial rye-grass is a tufted, fibrous rooted perennial grass that is generally regarded as native and is common throughout Britain.

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    Onion couch

    Onion couch is a tall perennial grass that occurs throughout the UK both as an arable weed and as a component of semi-natural grassland.

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    Creeping soft-grass

    Creeping soft-grass is a rhizomatous perennial grass native in woods and hedgerows. It is favoured by conditions in woodland clearings and at the early stages of coppicing.